2 Tbe HAZARD FAMILY

housing, goods, cattle, and chattels, etc.” To his son Robert he gives 15. To his daughters, Hannah Wilcox and Martha Potter, wife of Ichabod Potter, 15. There is a long line of descendants from this daughter Martha, and Ichabod Potter, with frequent intermarriages in the Hazard family. In the early history of the family it was almost an exception to find a Hazard who did not marry a cousin, and it is a curious fact that the lines in which these marriages were the most frequent, were often marked by the strongest men and women, both men— tally and physically.

These few meagre facts are about all that can be found at the present day of the founder of the Hazard family in America. But Thomas R. Hazard, in his Recollections of Olden Times, has given an account of the family that goes back, even beyond the name; its European founder being the Duke de Charante, living about 1060, on the borders of Switzerland. From the Duke de Charante he has given an interesting account of the changes in the name, until towards the close of the eighteenth century, when it was, and still continues to be, written Hazard. Willis R. Hazard, a descendant of Jonathan Hazard of Newtown, Long Island (according to whose opinion Jonathan was a son of Thomas Hazard, but by other authorities a nephew), has given us the chief characteristics of the family; and although his account was intended for the descendants of Jonathan of New- town, it 18 equally applicable to the Rhode Island family. He says: “The Haz— ards are a strongly marked race, handing down and retaining certain peculiarities from generation to generation. One 13, a peculiar decision of character, a certain amount of pride, and a pronounced independence, coupled with a slight reserve. Physically they are strongly marked. Generally speaking, they are of good stature and vigorous frames with rather a square head, high forehead, brown hair, blue eyes, straight or aquiline nose, and with will shown by a firmly set jaw. Their complexion IS fair, a little inclined to florid.”

Few families in Rhode Island have a brighter record than the Hazard family, where, if greatness is not always found, sobriety, honesty, and integrity make even the humblest lives worth studying , and when one finds, as is often the case, a retiring, unpretentious modesty combined with greatness, he must be par— cloned for his enthusiastic admiration for the old family tree, that still sends out vigorous shoots after more than two hundred years of growth in America.

CHILDREN or THOMAS HAZARD 2. ROBERT HAZARD, born 1635, in England or Ireland; died I710; married Mary Browne/l.

ELIZABETH HAZARD, married George Lawtafl. HANNAH HAZARD, married Stephen Wi/mx, son of Edward Wi/rax. MARTHA HAZARD, married rst, 1551115011 Potter, son of Nat/Janie! and Dent/1y Patter; married 2d,

ijamin Mawr}, son of Roger and Mary Mawry.

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